Thread by @QuinnyPig

How on earth does @awscloud call its Quantum computing service "Braket" when "Observerless" is RIGHT THERE?!

"Well, you generally need custom language integrations, you can't use C so we misspelled 'Bracket'" is the easy answer to cover up that this is the closest we're going to get to a March Madness thingy any time soon.

This description of a quantum computer reads like a Dr. Matt Wood dinner party conversation.

In an homage to IBM's early contributions to Quantum Computing as well as to their current cloud product, the Quantum Dingus has posted hours of operation.

When your experimentation with a new service features a better name than the actual service does.

This is a big day for @ChadRigetti and his team; AWS almost never uses third party locations to host things.

It's reassuring that the event horizon will not open next to your @awscloud database backups.

@Azure's picture of the explosive fuel cell next to a DC was a misstep.

Today @awscloud Braket offers machines in 11, 40, and 2048 qubits.

Noah's Ark was 300 x 80 x 50 cubits, or 450K cubic cubits. (That's 56250 cubic cubytes.)

The @awscloud training and certification team is also today announcing a quantum computing certification; it's called "a Ph.D from Berkeley."

Braket launches today without CloudFormation support, so you're going to have a bit of trouble integrating quantum computing into your Kubernetes environments.

It also launches without tagging support, because if you know how much it costs the entire thing breaks as the quantum wave function collapses.

"Occasionally a quantum device will be 'offline' if it is not available to customers regardless of availability window, for example due to scheduled maintenance, upgrades, or dimensional rifts opening."

"So how would I use @awscloud Braket in production?"

You absolutely would not. It's still experimental! But now people can start working with quantum computing for "a few dollars" instead of "several million dollars for equipment and then hiring a research team."

A bunch of folks are likely to dismiss this as all hype--just like every other Quantum Computing announcement.

Those folks are wrong. "Here's access to an actual quantum computer" can be called many things, but it's not hype.

Admittedly, the learning curve is steep and the documentation is about on par with API Gateway's, but it's a start. And that's more than any other company can say.

But for me? I still can't get over the fact that they knew this was coming but called some blockchain dingus "Quantum" instead of this back in 2018.

Braket's largely for experiments today, but you can get started using it for pennies. Access to quantum computing equipment through @awscloud Braket is already in use by companies like Fidelity, VW, and the AWS billing team.